Location
The Texas Heart Institute is located in the Denton A. Cooley Building, adjacent to its clinical partner, St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital, within the Texas Medical Center in Houston, Texas. The 327,000-square foot, 10-story Cooley Building was designed for four primary purposes—patient care, research, education, and clinical treatment. There are twelve 650-square-foot (60 m2) operating rooms devoted exclusively to heart procedures and three floors of specialized patient care rooms.
Two floors of the Cooley Building are devoted to the molecular and cellular study (basic scientific research) of cardiovascular disease. One of those floors is used collaboratively by The University of Texas system for cardiovascular research. A helistop is located on the roof of the building, which increases the efficiency of emergency patient care and the heart transplant program.
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